The "Real" Neil Patrick Harris - A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas

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It’s no surprise that the real Neil Patrick Harris is nothing like the version he plays in the Harold & Kumar movies, but A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas uses NPH’s personal life to poke fun at that disconnect between his public persona and movie alter ego even more. After the stoner odd couple went to Guantanamo Bay in the second movie, Harris publicly came out, marrying his longtime partner, David Burtka. So what did franchise creators Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg do? Make their NPH even more outlandishly offensive.

In public, he’s the same suave, polished and openly gay Neil Patrick Harris we know in real life. Behind closed doors, though, he’s the same deranged womanizing junkie we know from the Harold & Kumar universe, which means he uses his professed sexual orientation as “misdirection” to get girls, while Burtka shows up to bribe Harris for a bigger allowance with crack. It’s dark, twisted and totally in line with everything else in the hilarious trilogy.